The new restrictions could shut down most -- if not all -- of Louisiana's abortion clinics next week due to an absence of physicians legally able to provide abortions.

Under the new state law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal in June, physicians who perform abortions must have permission to admit patients at a local hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic where they work. Abortion clinic officials said their doctors are still waiting to hear back from local hospitals about whether they will be granted admitting privileges, which is why the law should be put on hold for now.

In other states, hospital admitting privileges have been difficult for doctors who work at abortion clinics to acquire. In Texas, for example, the hospital admitting privileges requirement has lead to the closure of roughly half of that state's facilities.

In legal documents, a state health official questioned whether it was necessary for abortion clinic officials to take the state to court at this time. Instead, he says, the clinics and doctors involved in the suit should have first approached the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals with their concerns before bringing the matter to court.

"Plaintiffs have had -- and continue to have -- every ability simply to approach DHH and confirm that DHH will not enforce the law against physicians with pending admitting-privileges requests [at local hospitals]," said legal documents filed by a lawyer representing Jimmy Guidry, the Louisiana state health officer and medical director.

Here are some interesting facts resulting from the legal proceedings over the new abortion law:

There is only one doctor in Louisiana who meets the upcoming requirements to perform abortions, but that doctor has said he will stop performing abortions if the new law goes into effect.

Given that, if the state's new abortion restrictions went into effect tomorrow, he would be the only doctor in the state who could perform abortions.

The physician -- who works in Shreveport -- has said, however, he will stop performing the procedure if he is the only person who can do so under the new state law. "But even if he were willing to do so, one doctor simply cannot meet the needs of all Louisiana seeking abortions," state legal paperwork filed by the abortion rights advocates.

The plaintiffs also argue the doctor could lose those hospital admitting privileges if he became the only physician in the state to perform abortions and did it as a full-time job.

The doctor's admitting privileges are tied to the patients he sees through his private obstetrics and gynecology practice. Giving up that practice to work full-time at the abortion clinic could cause him to lose those hospital privileges.

Abortion rights advocates argue some hospitals' requirements for admitting privileges are impossible for doctors working at abortion clinics to meet.

In some cases, Louisiana hospitals require doctors to serve on its faculty before granting admitting privileges. Sometimes doctors must also commit to minimum patient admission numbers.

Physicians who work at clinics rarely have to admit patients to the hospital because complications from abortions are rare, according to document filed by the plaintiffs. Therefore, abortion rights advocates argue, it is unreasonable to expect hospitals to grant doctors who work at the clinics admitting privileges, since they won't be able to provide the minimum number of patients some facilities require.

"To the extent the local hospitals will impose minimum admission requirements, plaintiffs clinics' doctors who specialize in providing abortions, will never meet this minimum requirement, because they rarely admit clinic patients to the hospital," states the plaintiffs legal document.

Detailed information about what type of abortions are performed at certain clinics and how many are done was provided in the legal documents to the court.

Abortion right advocates have provided explicit information about how many abortions are performed at a particular clinic and what type of cases are handled there in their legal documents. According to their filing, 12,210 women obtained abortions in Louisiana in 2011.

The court documents also show that one doctor at the Bossier City abortion clinic performs approximately 750 abortions per year. The doctor is also the only person in the state will will perform an abortion on a woman who is past 16 weeks pregnant, according to the legal filings.

Two doctors at the abortion clinic in Metairie perform approximately 2,100 abortions per year, though one physician provides about 75 percent of the procedures, according to legal documents.

There is a dispute over whether the doctors involved in the lawsuit should remain anonymous.

The two doctors who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit are only called "Dr. John Doe 1" and "Dr. John Doe 2" in their legal filings. The physicians, who perform abortions in the state, have argued disclosing their identities would put them at risk of harassment.

But Guidry, the state health official the doctors are suing, said he has a right to know the names of the physicians bringing legal action against him. The doctors have not provided enough evidence, he said, to support the notion that being identified wold subject them to harassment.

"Courts have repeatedly held that the public has a right to know the names of litigants, an interest grounded in the First Amendment," wrote Guidry's lawyer in legal documents.

The lawyer also states that his client would be put at a disadvantage if the doctors remain anonymous because the state would not properly be able to research the physicians' professional backgrounds and histories, which he argues is relevant for a legal challenge.